In 2010 award-winning journalist Lisa Chedekel published a story detailing how more than a dozen Connecticut doctors who had been sanctioned in other states for illegal or substandard practices were able to practice freely in Connecticut. She found that Connecticut rarely took action against doctors even when their licenses had been censured in other states. When published in December 2010 Chedekel’s story drew wide attention. The Hartford Courant the state’s largest newspaper published an editorial on the issue. The Connecticut legislature responded by strengthening the law giving the Department of Public Health authority to take disciplinary action against doctors who had been found negligent or incompetent in other states.